Human Resources Intern at World Food Programme (WFP)

The World Food Programme is the food assistance branch of the United Nations and the world’s largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.

JOB PURPOSE

WFP’s greatest strength is its dedicated people working tirelessly around the world to reduce hunger, often under difficult conditions where security threats and risks to personal safety are considerable. The organization is committed to transform its HR function to a strategic business partner. To achieve this, a lot of new HR initiatives are launching and WFP is looking for an outstanding HR intern to get involved and contribute to these exciting HR projects.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Support HR operational activities or projects that are aligned to business needs, following standard processes and ensuring alignment with wider WFP policies.


• Respond to queries from managers and staff, understanding their issues and ensuring policies, procedures, processes, systems and tools are available and correctly applied to support them.


• Contribute to the effective management of the employment relationship between WFP and its staff, by administering conditions of service, contracts and appropriate entitlements.


• Support staff capability building, working with managers to understand individual skills and business requirements, and organizing development solutions which equip people with the skills and knowledge required to meet current and future challenges.


• Support and deliver onboarding activities to ensure new employees have a positive experience of WFP and are successfully integrated into their new role and the organization.


• Provide support in building talent within WFP, working with managers to understand their needs and organizing solutions to recruit, retain and develop a high calibre workforce to deliver the business strategy.


• Collate data and contribute to preparation of accurate and timely reporting, supporting a WFP wide view of HR activities that enables informed decision-making and consistent information for stakeholders.


• Conduct straight forward data analysis under close guidance of a senior HR Officer, in order to support others on projects or contribute to process efficiencies and improvements.


• Assist in the design and the development of diverse new HR employer-branding projects in the field of employment fairs, university relationships, onboarding, talent acquisition and others.


• Support with communication on HR information to stakeholders, external vendors and/or client groups in line with EVP activities.


• Monitor emerging industry trends and best-practices and provide recommendations on stakeholder engagement EVP programme optimization.


• Support with social media and traditional media listening and monitoring of stakeholder activities involving WFP and report on their performance.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Business Analytics, Operations Management, Data Science, Applied Science, Human Resources or related field.


• Candidate must be a recent graduate (within the last 6 months) or actively pursuing an undergraduate degree of which he/she has competed 2 years of undergraduate study OR pursuing a graduate programme in the above areas; or

Language:  Fluency in both oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another UN language is an advantage.

DESIREABLE QUALITIES

• Adaptable to an international, multicultural, and multilingual environment


• Availability and willingness to travel as required to different areas of Kenya


• Ability to work under minimum supervision


• Good communication skills and be able to work in a team


• Ability to work with different people


• Ability to understand new concepts very easily.

DELIVERABLES/OUTPUTS

• Quality reports.


• Timely processing of documentation.


• Successful support in implementation of HR Initiatives.

TRAINING COMPONENTS

• Recruitment, Onboarding and Employee Experience


• HR Information Systems.


• HR Operations


• HR Communication


• Performance and Learning

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